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Rental builders playing catchup More amenable rates allow developers to help Langford with long-term growth plan Rick Stiebel News Gazette staff
What a difference 10 years makes in the up-and-down world of real estate and development. When developer Malcolm Hall completed his Slipway rental apartment project in Langford in 2003, it was one of only two rental projects built in the city since 1999. Fast-forward to the present and there’s a plethora of rental projects on the go or recently completed in Langford, including developments on Jacklin Road, Brock Avenue, n In 2003, the Station Avenue Capital Regional and Goldstream District’s Regional Avenue as well Growth Strategy as Wale Road in identified Langford as Colwood. a preferred area for For growth. comparison, Hall n According to points out that B.C. Statistics, the Duncan, with a population of Langford population of has increased from about 13,000, has 30,430 in 2011 to roughly 1,200 34,677 in 2014. rental units, while Langford, with a population of 34,000, currently has around 500 units. That shows there’s definitely room for the market to grow on the West Shore, said Hall, whose Langford projects have added 175 units in the past few years. He estimates that another 300 to 400 units are in the works for Langford alone, a trend he attributes to the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporationinsured mortgage rates running at around 1.75 per cent now, compared to five per cent 10 years ago. CMHC insurance protects banks if
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Langford-based developer Malcolm Hall stands on a stairwell at The Waverly, a rental project he built on Goldstream Avenue. Hall says the business climate is more appealing now for companies looking at building rental accommodation. a developer forfeits on a loan. When developers purchase that insurance, banks offer a lower interest rate. “I never thought it would drop to this level,” Hall said. “It can take up to a year to go through the process to build, so you have to be careful because the market can change. We didn’t have any trouble filling the units, but I don’t think that will be the case when I anticipate that CMHC rates
will go up again.” Hall attributes the boom on the West Shore to several factors, such as retirees looking to simplify by selling their homes and renting, and young families and couples just starting out renting until they can afford to buy. As well, he said, “the condo market is saturated with units for sale.” Langford Coun. Denise Blackwell, chair of the city’s planning and zoning
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Sweet, savoury chef competition helping support vulnerable women Westshore women’s service club hopes event appeals to foodies Rick Stiebel News Gazette staff
Who can say no to a fundraiser featuring the flavours of chocolate? On April 18, Soroptimist International of Victoria Westshore is hosting the first Flavour of Chocolate culinary event, where six chefs will compete for votes on their special creations of small savoury dishes that all incorporate various forms of the cocoa bean. Competitors include Michael Nightingale, sous chef at the Four Mile Pub in View Royal, Mark Wadsworth, executive chef at Westin Bear Mountain in Langford, Don Moloney, owner of River Road Specialty Chocolates in Sooke, Shirley Lang, executive chef at Distinction Catering Services in Langford, Pat Hogan, chef de cuisine at 4 Beaches Bed and Breakfast in Sooke, and Toivo Heyduck, a former Chopped Canada semi-finalist and head chef at Bitter Creek Café in Stewart, B.C. If that’s not enough to tempt your taste buds’ craving for chocolate, renowned chef Matthias Conradi, the pastry chef at Sooke Harbour House, will be on hand to prepare a decadent dessert. Soroptimist club spokesperson and event co-chair Deb Alcadinho said her group raises funds for projects locally and internationally that support women, girls and their children. “We are excited to launch Flavour of Chocolate as an annual
event to raise awareness for our organization, and support worthy projects on the West Shore,” she said. Proceeds from the event, which takes place at Westin Bear Mountain on April 18 starting at 6:30 p.m., will help support Anney’s Closet, a free store providing household items for women at risk, and Imagining Possibilities, a one-day conference for women age 16 to 24 that teaches life skills, provides career opportunities information and mentorship. “We have the ability to create where we recognize a need on the West Shore,” Alcadinho said. “Proceeds will also go toward future projects and financial awards for deserving women in a number of different categories.” Presenting sponsor Diana Frizell, an advisor with RBC Wealth Management-Dominion Securities, said she is a firm believer in the work Soroptimist International performs in the community. “Women supporting women not only helps women reach their full potential, it also benefits their families, communities and society as a whole,” she said in a release. “This event gives me a way to thank the women who have mentored me and worked beside me.” For more information or to purchase tickets at $75 each, visit flavourofchocolate.yolasite.com. There are also a limited number of sponsor tables available at cost of $1,000 each. news@goldstream gazette.com
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An Island solution for regional kitchen scraps is on hold while Capital Regional District directors wait to discover if processing organics and sewage waste at a single facility is feasible. Hartland landfill banned all organic waste at the beginning of 2015, which spurred the CRD board last fall to look to “establish a processing society in the region or in proximity to the region.” Alpine Disposal and Recycling has an extensive kitchen scrap pick-up service on the West Shore, and Heather Baumann, Alpine’s office manager, says they definitely drop the kitchen scraps they collect at Hartland Landfill. After that, she says, they don’t know what happens to them. It turns out the organic waste from the West Shore, along with that of the rest of the region – except Saanich, whose organic waste continues to be trucked to Cobble Hill each week for processing – is currently being barged to Richmond. According to CRD spokesperson Andy Orr, Hartland Landfill is still accepting the organic waste, but is merely acting as a transfer station for the region’s organics. Kitchen scraps are received there before being barged to Harvest Energy in Richmond, where they are used in energy production. “The process of getting a local facility has been bogged down by the whole sewage discussion,” he said. “Some people think it might be good to integrate those concepts together, so that’s where we’re at right now. Figuring out a way that might happen.” Last fall, the CRD put out a request for proposals for a regional kitchen scraps site and facility and have since received 15 proposals. But on March 11, CRD staff suggested a “pause on the process” until a market sounding on available technology for sewage processing – with potential integration of kitchen scraps – is completed in May. Staff expect the latest market sounding – put forward by Saanich Coun. Vic Derman multiple times over the years before it was successfully passed – to look at how residual solids from liquid waste could be integrated, treated and harvested for energy in combination with kitchen scraps. Central Saanich has experienced firsthand the issue of biosolids processing on farmland. Foul smells caused the CRD to pull the food scraps licence for Foundation Organics in 2013, but the facility has since been permitted to process yard waste only. Central Saanich Mayor Ryan Windsor said he’s worried the diversion of kitchen scraps to off-shore locations will continue for years if a solution is wrapped up in a sewage treatment facility. “It’s fairly obvious when the proposal of combining biosolids with other scraps and creating a soil … the community responds in a way that is not positive, to put it lightly,” he said. “But I’ll wait to see the report back in a couple months.” It’s a stance the CRD, too, has
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Tryce Barrault of Bin 4 in Langford cuts up vegetables, disposing of the excess in a bin beside the cutting station. The food scraps are picked up twice weekly from the restaurant and taken to the Hartland Landfill. taken in the past, vowing not to allow biosolids processing on land. CRD board chair and Oak Bay Mayor Nils Jensen said it would be a collision of policies to change now. “Before we can even consider that, we would have to go back and revisit a policy which was already revisited twice.” Once a sewage market sounding is complete, the next step for organics processing would be a short-listing of proposals. CRD staff presume a couple of months is a reasonable timeline with which to respond to the 15 groups that submitted proposals. – with files from Daniel Palmer mdavies@goldstream gazette.com
A proposal to put nine homes on a large lot on Atkins Road in View Royal moved a step closer to approval last week. After listening to public comments about the project, which would see the single-family homes constructed on a roughly 1.6-acre property at 102 Atkins Rd. wedged in between the Galloping Goose Trail and the former E&N railroad tracks, council gave the proposal third reading. Applicant En-ViroTech Contracting Ltd. must now clear up some fine details around its proposal David Screech with town staff before the item comes back to council for fourth and final reading and approval of a building permit. Mayor David Screech said most of the concerns speakers brought forward at the March 17 public hearing were around traffic safety getting in and out of Atkins Road. The current driveway for the property is situated mere metres from a road crossing of the Galloping Goose, a busy junction with somewhat limited visibility for approaching traffic on either side of Atkins Road. In the proposal, the developer has agreed to provide a financial contribution toward creating pedestrian activated crossing lights at the crossing. An earlier version of the proposal that was rejected by council included more homes and had a larger footprint on the lot, Screech noted. “It made quite a difference on the property,” he said. “The tree retention and the green space with this plan is significantly better than we thought about the earlier incarnation.” The mayor expected land clearing work on the rocky property might get underway sometime in the next few months. editor@goldstreamgazette.com
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Interchange idea isn’t dead yet Last week, B.C. Transportation Minister Todd Stone trumpeted the province’s long-awaited transportation plan as “a roadmap for the next 10 years on how we will expand and improve our transportation network to ultimately improve the quality of life for us all.” The B.C. On the Move plan is the result of 13,000 responses from British Columbians about their perceived infrastructure priorities. But the lack of detail in the plan is frustrating, given the hype of its release by the province. It didn’t take 13,000 responses to inform the government that Vancouver Island’s top traffic problem remains the logjam at McKenzie Avenue/Admirals Road and Highway 1, a malaise which draws primarily from West Shore-based commuters. Anyone anticipating a specific timeline and commitment to an interchange at the intersection had to be disappointed with last week’s On the Move announcement. While the province committed to key, but unspecified, Highway 1 upgrades between Langford and Saanich to “reduce congestion and improve commuter mobility,” there was less certainty around the interchange idea. The ministry did, however, commit to revisiting the potential for a future interchange at the busy intersection as a way ease congestion along the region’s busiest commuter route. Preliminary engineering work is already underway as part of a feasibility study into such a project. Cost is clearly the major factor for an interchange, which some estimates put in the $80-million to $100-million range. The province stated it will be looking to partner with the feds and local governments to ease congestion and improve safety along the corridor. While the Conservative government dispensed with its infrastructure grants some years back, in an election year, who knows what might happen? Then again, finding money for an interchange would gain more traction if we had a sitting government MP. Just look at the McTavish Road monstrosity, a project built when Gary Lunn was the area’s Conservative MP and a cabinet minister. What do you think? Give us your comments by email: editor@goldstreamgazette.com or fax 250-478-6545. All letters must have a name and a telephone number for verification. The Goldstream News Gazette is a member of the British Columbia Press Council, a self-regulatory body governing the province’s newspaper industry. The council considers complaints from the public about the conduct of member newspapers. If talking with the editor or publisher does not resolve your complaint about coverage or story treatment, you may contact the B.C. Press Council. Your written concern, with documentation, should be sent to B.C. Press Council, 201 Selby St., Nanaimo, B.C. V9R 2R2. For information, phone 888-687-2213 or go to www.bcpresscouncil.org.
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Making real progress on poverty Approved training means training The B.C. government has made for jobs that are identified as in its most significant moves in demand, requiring high school decades to address the needs of and occupation-specific some of the province’s training that can be poorest people. completed in a year or The largest financial less. They include retail commitment is for a new sales, general office work program to help single and assistance jobs in parents escape from the health services. welfare trap. There are Another overdue 16,000 single parents in policy change is to B.C. receiving provincial double the allowable income assistance or earnings for all income disability payments, most assistance recipients from of them women. Tom Fletcher $200 to $400 a month. Even if they could B.C. Views This gives people a find an entry-level job, it chance to improve their wouldn’t pay enough to circumstances by taking whatever cover the child care they would part-time or casual work they can need to go to work. Worst of all, the manage, without having that little current system requires that if they income cut from their already enrol in training, they lose their meagre welfare cheques. income assistance, including dental And then there was the recent and extended medical care for decision to end the claw-back of themselves and their children. parental child support payments That is the welfare trap, one of from income assistance payments. the most perverse government The province has for many years policies to have survived into our run a costly child maintenance supposedly enlightened modern enforcement program to track era. down (mostly) deadbeat dads and The new program takes effect in force them to pay at least a token September. It will not only continue amount to support their children. income assistance payments Now when they pay child support when single parents enrol in skills to a single parent on income training, it promises to cover their assistance, they will at least have child care and transportation costs for an approved training program of the satisfaction of knowing the children actually receive the extra up to one year. benefit. Medical and child care costs will These harsh, historic policies then be covered for up to a year were built around a philosophy that after training, to allow a transition welfare is a temporary last resort, to employment.
to be withdrawn as soon as some other source of income is identified. That is a valid if unfashionable position to take on behalf of working taxpayers who pay for all this, but it only makes sense if the income assistance recipient has a realistic option. For those who are already in the entry-level job market, the minimum wage goes up 20 cents an hour in September, from $10.25 to $10.45. This is the beginning of an annual review that will tie the wage to the consumer price index. A paltry sum, to be sure, but anyone who still thinks jacking the minimum wage up to $15 an hour is a magic solution that won’t cost some entry-level jobs is clinging to a socialist dream world. • • • I have been contacted by several low-income seniors who read my recent column on B.C.’s Seniors’ Advocate. They were asking where to find out if they are eligible for support programs such as the SAFER rent subsidy, assistance for Medical Services Plan premiums, property tax deferment and grants to help with home modifications for disabilities. I apologize for this oversight. One place to start is the Seniors’ Advocate toll-free information line, 1-877-952-3181, weekdays 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Tom Fletcher is legislature reporter and columnist for Black Press. Twitter: @tomfletcherbc Email: tfletcher@blackpress.ca
‘The welfare trap has survived into our supposedly enlightened modern era.’
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OPINION
Transit’s future lies in an appropriate funding model in walkways, cycling Many people think of networks and efficient Canada as a landscape public transportation of forests, mountains, — including rapid rail water and ice, but the and bus systems — Canadian experience cities can promote is fast becoming healthy lifestyles focused on glass and while protecting the concrete. Our 2011 environment. A twocensus revealed that car household that 81 per cent of us now replaces one vehicle live in cities. And David Suzuki with alternative despite taking up transportation can cut less land space, our with Steve Kux its annual emissions environmental impact by 10 per cent. continues to grow. As Building balanced the United Nations notes, cities transportation systems and cover only two per cent of the improving transit reduces world’s land area but produce reliance on private vehicles, cuts 60 per cent of CO2 emissions — traffic congestion and leads to including a significant proportion better public health by keeping from urban transportation, as pollutants linked to asthma and people commute to school and cardiovascular disease out of the work on increasingly crowded air. It can also help curb North roads and transit networks. America’s obesity epidemic, Changing the way we move which is leading to diseases like through cities is a critical step in diabetes and sending health care reducing carbon emissions. The costs skyrocketing. most direct way to accomplish Recent research on the this is to provide urbanites relationship between health and with reliable alternatives to transit use in Metro Vancouver, automobile travel. By investing
by University of British Columbia urban planning and public health professor Lawrence Frank and two health authorities, reveals that residents of areas with above average public transportation use are 26 per cent less likely to be obese and 49 per cent more likely to walk for at least 30 minutes a day than people living in low transit use areas. Vancouver is a good case study for the future of Canadian urban public transit. Metro residents are voting on a plebiscite to fund regional transit and transportation expansion with a 0.5 per cent provincial sales tax increase. Many groups in the region — including business, labour, environmental, health and student — are setting aside political differences and joining the Better Transit and Transportation Coalition to support it. With only eight cents of every tax dollar going to Canadian municipalities, cities across the country are looking for ways to fund infrastructure
maintenance and improvements. Canada is also the only major industrialized country without a national transit funding strategy. Provincial governments, such as Ontario’s, have had some success in securing funding for transit improvements, but across the country the issue is largely in the hands of local leaders. Although Metro Vancouver’s transit ridership has increased dramatically in recent years, road congestion is still a problem, costing the regional economy up to $1.2 billion per year. To combat similar issues, cities around the world, including London, Milan and Stockholm, have introduced congestion charges for drivers who use city streets during peak hours, funnelling monies raised into transit improvements. By comparison, a Vancouver sales tax increase would spread the cost out to include transit users, cyclists, walkers and visitors. North American cities often have a more difficult time than European municipalities convincing residents to support
LETTERS
Use sense when considering pet rabbits With Easter not far off, many children start thinking of the Easter bunny and seeing them in TV ads and toy bunnies in shops may get the idea that they want a cuddly little bunny of their own. Please give this decision some serious thought before you adopt. Rabbits are timid creatures that do not like being held. If they fall they do not land on their feet as does a cat and many serious injuries can happen. They are sociable creatures and should not be kept in a small cage. Consider it the same as solitary confinement. As a rabbit owner, I can attest that they are sweet intelligent creatures, but a lot of work. Their habitats need cleaning every day and their food and water bottles must be washed. Young children infatuated with
owning a bunny will quickly tire of that chore when other social activity takes over. The rabbits will be ignored and their housing left unkempt and the onus will fall to the parent to take over those chores – a parent who is too busy already. How long will that last? A rabbit is a long-term commitment, one which must be taken seriously. Too many families faced with this extra responsibility see no option but to dispose of the rabbit. Unfortunately, too many times it is dumped in an area with other no-longer-wanted rabbits, which in itself is a death sentence, if not carried out by a predator or a vehicle, then sometimes by another rabbit defending its turf. Humane societies will be happy to have the bunny. And those toy bunnies mentioned
above may make better pets all around. William Jesse Victoria
Time to up the ante for international aid Re: Lester Pearson’s challenge I would like to congratulate the House of Lords for passing historic legislation which requires the British government to allocate 0.7 per cent of its GDP to Overseas Development Assistance. Why this is of such interest to Canadians is that in 1969 our prime minister, Lester Pearson, challenged developed countries to achieve this level of funding to those countries less fortunate than us. Sweden, the Netherlands, Norway, Denmark, Luxembourg and now Britain have achieved that target.
YOU ~ Vimy RidgeTHANK to Afghanistan – To Veterans and Your Families. Thank you, Canadian Veterans To Military Personnel and Your Families. and your Families ~ THANK YOU
Unfortunately, despite promises by several governments, Canada is still below 0.3 per cent. Perhaps it is time for us to pass such a law in Ottawa and honour the memory of a great man. Sam Weller Oak Bay
Brain story prompts musical consideration Re: Brain coach entertains while enlightening (Gazette, March 11) Your left and right hands and arms are also interdependently “wired” in the brain. An interesting fact resulting from this is that musical conductors all have had training to “rewire” their brains so that their left and right hands and arms can move completely independently. Axel Brock-Miller Langford
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transit funding. Denver, Colorado, has had two transit funding referendums, one that failed and a more recent one that passed. In 2014, Seattle residents took part in two votes, agreeing to a 0.1 per cent sales tax increase and a $60 vehicle levy to improve transit only after bus service faced severe cuts following a “No” vote on transit funding earlier in the year. Canadians aren’t often invited to directly participate in policymaking. The vote in Metro Vancouver is the first of its kind nationally and will likely set off a heated debate about how transportation funding is discussed in this country. While the outcome remains uncertain, one thing is clear: People with realistic transit options have a daily choice to support or degrade the environment. When faced with that choice, history has shown more people opt to leave their cars in the garage. We need to think seriously about how we keep our cities moving into the future.
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Metchosin: Then and Now
The top photo of what became know as Darby Farm dates back to 1910. The signature water tower in the centre, a landmark seen by today’s visitors to Tower Point Park in Metchosin, remains as seen in the current photo below. (Top) Metchosin Museum Society archives
Photo by Wendy Mitchell, Metchosin Museum Society
Some places may be iconic while not having a very clear story attached to them. Darby Farm’s long drive leading to the water tower is familiar to anyone who has enjoyed Tower Point Park. The Dukes bought the land from a Mr. Rosman in the middle 1800’s and in the 1890’s, an engineer from Victoria by the name of Invaraity bought the approximately 65-acre parcel. He designed and built the 30-foot tower to store water piped from Bilston Creek. The pipes were laid on pilWendy ings across Witty’s Lagoon, Mitchell some of which are still visible. The house he built in 1904 has been enlarged and renovated many times to achieve its substantial beauty today. In 1911 F.F. Higgs, a Victoria realtor, bought the property and it is probably he who named the property Darby Farm. Like most farms in Metchosin at that time it produced fruit, vegetables, poultry and dairy products. I remember in the late 50’s attending yearly fetes. The sun always shone on the pony events and children’s races, ice cream dripped and the St. Johns Ambulance attendants patiently waited with the ocean and Olympic Mountains making a spectacular backdrop. Metchosin Museum’s Old Barn Books is open Sundays 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.; your donations of good used books are most welcome as their sale helps to preserve Metchosin’s heritage. Please email wendyncmitchell@shaw.ca to share your stories or make additions, amendments and suggestions.
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Upcoming walks in Francis/King regional park Nettles and wild teas are the subjects of a pair of guided nature walks happening this weekend at Francis/King Regional Park. On Saturday (March 28), join a Capital Regional District Parks naturalist in hunting for early spring greens such as stinging nettles, and learn about their uses and benefits. This guided adult walk (18 years plus) offers tips on how to prepare nettle and opportunities to taste it. The walk and talk happens from 1 to 3 p.m. and
Don’t necessarily view the fungus on trees as a death sentence, but there are things you can do to mitigate the problem.
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Sick-looking arbutus tree might not be so unhealthy Spring routinely affects this native broad-leafed evergreen tree Mike Davies News Gazette staff
Spring has sprung. The clocks have been reset to give us an extra hour of daylight – possibly getting us outside in the wild a bit more often for a bit longer periods of time. One of the things you may notice while you’re out in the wonders of nature around the West Shore is fungus, particularly on the arbutus trees around. You may even have a few in your yard you’re wondering or worried about. Many of you are, apparently, as Natural Resources Canada gets a ton of calls this time of year about whether their arbutus trees are sick or dying. “You can think of your arbutus tree as a salad bar for insects and fungal disease,” says Brenda Callan, a scientist at Natural Resources Canada’s Pacific Forestry Centre on Burnside Road West. Known elsewhere as the Pacific madrone or madrona, arbutus trees on Vancouver Island are at the northern most extent of their natural range, Callan says, and it doesn’t take much for them to become stressed. They cling to shorelines and rocky areas where they can outgrow Douglas fir, digging their roots into marginal sites, making them more at risk for disease or stress from adverse weather. This doesn’t mean the sick-looking arbutus on your property is dying, however. “Arbutus trees always look their worst in spring, before the old spotty and winter-damaged, browned leaves are cast in the summer” says Callan. Arrays of organisms can cause leaf and twig blackening, and arbutuses are especially prone to winter damage. Over a dozen different leaf spot fungi will cause brown leaves, she says. “If you look closely, you may find evidence of leaf-mining insects such as windy tracks. That’s where a little burrowing insect has gotten into the leaf and eaten it away. “Neofusicoccum arbuti, a fungus that occurs naturally in this region, can cause stem and branch cankers and some of the branch dieback,”
the cost is $7 per person plus GST. On Sunday from 1 to 3 p.m., bring the whole family down for a Forest Tea Party. This all-ages event focuses on identifying plants that are suitable for making tea. A short, guided walk to see the plants growing in their habitat precedes the tea-tasting. Cost is $10 per family plus GST. Space is limited for both walks and registration is required by March 27. Call 250-478-3344 to register and receive meet-up instructions.
Brenda Callan is an expert on mycology, or fungi, at the Pacific Forestry Centre. Photo contributed
adds Callan, but normally it only causes disease symptoms when the trees are stressed by other factors, such as drought or winter wind damage. A tree heavily affected by this fungus can go into a downward spiral of decline, and in this weakened state, other agents might join in and finish the tree off. The good news is that by midspring the majority of arbutus trees will have healthy green buds. In summer, most of the affected leaves will fall off. Once the old blotchy leaves are gone and the new leaves are fully flushed, most trees will look healthy again.
There’s ways you can help your arbutus get healthy Insects, disease and wildfires thin out older and weaker trees as part of a natural ecosystem process. But homeowners can help their arbutus trees through activities like fertilizing, and pruning dead branches as soon as they are discovered. Callan also recommends avoiding watering foliage to decrease the spread of fungal spores, and gathering fallen leaves in early fall. If you plant under an arbutus, choose drought-resistant plants. Too much watering promotes other organisms that can harm the tree. You should also avoid parking on unpaved areas under arbutuses, as compacted soil may stress the trees. Trees will also react poorly if they have grown in a protected area and are suddenly exposed to excess sunlight and wind as a result of clearing trees around them. If you have questions or concerns about the trees in your area, or would like more tips on how you can help keep them healthy, contact Callan at the Pacific Forestry Centre at Brenda.Callan@NRCan-RNCan.gc.ca, call 250-363-0600 or visit nrcan.gc.ca. mdavies@goldstreamgazette.com
Notice to Electors Within the Capital Regional District Alternative Approval Process for CRD Bylaw 3981 - Authorizing the borrowing of $14,800,000 for acquiring, designing and constructing water distribution facilities in the Juan de Fuca Water Distribution Area Notice is hereby given that the Board of Directors of the Capital Regional District (“CRD”) proposes to adopt Bylaw No. 3981, “Juan de Fuca Water Distribution Facilities Loan Authorization Bylaw No. 1, 2014 “ to authorize the borrowing of up to Fourteen Million Eight Hundred Thousand Dollars ($14,800,000) for the purpose of acquiring, designing and constructing water distribution facilities in the western communities of the Juan de Fuca Water Distribution Area. Over the next five years the CRD will need up to $14,800,000 to meet the cash requirements necessary to fund investments in the Juan de Fuca Water Distribution system infrastructure. Borrowing will only occur after review and confirmation of the cash flow requirements and approval of the projects by the Juan de Fuca Water Distribution Commission. The debt servicing costs will be recovered through the retail water rate. Take further notice that the CRD may proceed with Bylaw No. 3981 unless at least 5,561 electors within the CRD indicate by signing the elector response forms, that the Board must obtain the assent of the electors by way of referendum before proceeding to adopt Bylaw No. 3981. The elector response form must be in the form as established by the CRD and forms are available from the CRD on request. The only persons entitled to sign elector response forms are electors of the area to which the alternative approval process opportunity applies. The alternative approval process opportunity applies within the following municipalities of the CRD: Colwood, Highlands (that part within the RUCSPA set out in Bylaw No. 3820), Langford, Metchosin, Sooke and View Royal and a portion of the Juan de Fuca Electoral Area (East Sooke participating area). The deadline for delivering the original signed elector response forms, in relation to Bylaw No. 3981, to the CRD is 4:00 pm on Monday, May 4, 2015. Forms must be received by the deadline to be counted. The CRD has estimated that the total number of electors within the service area is 55,614 and that 10% of that number or 5,561 electors must submit elector response forms to prevent the CRD from enacting Bylaw No. 3981 without the assent of the electors by referendum. Further technical information concerning Bylaw No. 3981 may be obtained from Ted Robbins, General Manager, Integrated Water Services, 479 Island Highway, Victoria, BC V9B 1H7 (Tel: 250.474.9604) during regular office hours Monday to Friday (excluding public holidays) from the date of this notice until May 4, 2015. Qualifications for Resident and Non-Resident Property Electors Resident Elector: You are entitled to submit an elector response form as a Resident Elector if you are 18 years or older on the date of submission of the elector response form, are a Canadian citizen, have resided in British Columbia for 6 months and in the CRD for at least 30 days prior to signing the elector response form. Non-Resident Property Elector: You may submit an elector response form as a Non-Resident Property Elector if you are 18 years or older on the date of submission of the elector response form, are a Canadian citizen, have resided in British Columbia for 6 months, have owned and held registered title to property in the CRD for 30 days and do NOT qualify as a Resident Elector. If there is more than one registered owner of the property (either as joint tenants or tenants in common) only one individual may, with the written consent of the majority, submit an elector response form. To obtain an elector response form, or for questions about the elector approval process, please contact CRD Legislative and Information Services, PO Box 1000, 625 Fisgard Street, 5th Floor, Victoria, BC V8W 2S6 or by telephone at 250.360.3129 from 8:30 am-4:30 pm, Monday to Friday. A copy of the elector response form may be downloaded from: www.crd.bc.ca/about/how-we-are-governed/elections-other-voting Elector response forms may also be obtained at the following CRD offices, from 8:30 am-4:30 pm, Monday to Friday (excluding statutory holidays): • Integrated Water Services, 479 Island Highway, Victoria • Juan de Fuca Local Area Services office, #3-7450 Butler Road, Sooke A copy of Bylaw No. 3981 and a copy of this Notice may be inspected during regular office hours, 8:30 am to 4:30 pm, Monday to Friday (excluding statutory holidays) from the date of this notice until May 4, 2015 at the following locations: • public notice board in the lobby of CRD headquarters, 625 Fisgard Street, Victoria • Integrated Water Services, 479 Island Highway, Victoria • Juan de Fuca Local Area Services office #3-7450 Butler Road, Sooke • on the CRD website: for Bylaw No. 3981: www.crd.bc.ca/about/document-library/Documents/bylaws/ bylawssubjecttoreferendumoralternativeapprovalprocess for this Notice: www.crd.bc.ca/about/how-we-are-governed/elections-other-voting Given under my hand at Victoria, BC this 25th day of March, 2015 Sonia Santarossa Corporate Officer
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Bloody good Westshore Rebels cheerleading squad member Brooklynn Jaundrew, 17, rests comfortably while making her first-ever donation at Canadian Blood Services on Saanich Road. She was one of a number of Rebels club members, including a number of players, who gave blood on the weekend. Four were first-time donors. The Rebels are a member of Canadian Blood Services’ Partners for Life program.
RRU seeks nominations for Alumni Excellence Rick Stiebel News Gazette staff
Royal Roads University is looking for outstanding alumni who have achieved the kind of success in their lives and careers that is truly inspirational. The Colwood-based university is accepting nominations for its fourth annual Alumni Excellence Award now until April 30. Nominees will be judged on how well they have brought meaningful and positive change to their workplace, community or the world. The Alumni Leadership Award, which is also open to former cadets who attended RRU when it was a military college, honours an alumnus who is a significant, successful leader. The awards program enables alumni to reconnect with the Royal Roads community and allows the university to celebrate their achievements and contributions. It also helps foster Royal Roads’ vision to “connect people, ideas and experience to change lives and the world.” “We are always inspired by the calibre of nominees we receive,” said Doug Ozeroff, RRU senior manager of communications and alumni relations. “These are people who are truly making a difference all over the world.” Past award winners include journalist Mading Ngor, former Calgary fire chief Bruce Burrell and Deloitte diversity leader Jackie Scales. The awards will be presented at a celebratory event hosted by RRU in September. You can nominate someone by calling Ozeroff at 250-391-2526, or make a nomination online at www. royalroads.ca/alumni-awards. news@goldstreamgazette.com
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Colourful coastline A short drive from Metchosin is East Sooke Park, which affords vantage points such as this, looking out to the Strait of Juan de Fuca. We’d like to encourage Gazette readers to send your shots of people, places and things around the West Shore for consideration for our Reader Photo of the Week feature. Send your photos in .jpg format to editor@goldstreamgazette.com with your name and photo subject details.
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A federal subsidy program aimed at increasing solar hot water systems in the Capital Region expires this month. A total of 81 residents and businesses received subsidies between $2,500 and $4,000 through the Solar CRD program, a program that began in Colwood in 2011 and was later rolled out across the region. Depending on the size of the system, Solar CRD covered approximately a third of the cost of a solar hot water system, while commercial subsidies went up to $25,000 per application. Solar CRD’s grant program ends March 31. But March 20 was the deadline to have the solar hot water system installed, functioning and licensed in order to ensure timely processing and payment of the Solar CRD incentives, according to a program spokesperson. “We had enough money for 100 residential subsidies and reached 81. So, for the most part, we’re happy with the success,” said Solar CRD’s Glen Harris, senior manager with the CRD’s environmental protection. “We also had a few commercial installations which we’re thrilled about.” At this point, there has been no discussion of extending or recreating the program, though Harris pointed out the CRD’s Tap by Tap program has expanded to provide multi-unit buildings with up to 3,000 units with free water and energy saving fixtures, such as shower heads and faucet aerators. Those low-flow fixtures have helped reduce water use in the region, but the level of residential solar energy falls squarely on those willing to pay the startup costs. editor@goldstream gazette.com
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Public Notice – Updating Parcel Tax Rolls As per section 208 of the Community Charter, notice is hereby given that the following Parcel Tax Rolls are now available for inspection at the City of Colwood Municipal Hall located at 3300 Wishart Road, Colwood, BC between the hours of 8:30 a.m. and 4:30 p.m., Monday through Friday, except statutory holidays: Colwood South Sewer Local Area Service Parcel Tax Roll Colwood East Sewer Local Area Service Parcel Tax Roll Colwood West Sewer Local Area Service Parcel Tax Roll And, CRD Onsite Sewage Disposal Systems Services Parcel Tax Roll A person who owns a parcel included on any of these parcel tax rolls may request that the roll be amended, only in relation to the person’s own property, on the following grounds:
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cap season with provincial silver Tier 1 squad roars back in morning game, can’t get untracked in final Don Descoteau News Gazette staff
Entering last week’s B.C. Amateur Hockey pee wee Tier 1 provincial tournament, the Juan de Fuca Grizzlies were an afterthought in some people’s minds. That was just the kind of motivation the team needed, as they won their way to a berth in the championship game against the vaunted Burnaby Winter Club. The Grizzlies, who left it all on the ice in a 6-3 comeback victory over North Shore Winter Club last Wednesday morning, had little bite left by the evening. They wound up losing 9-0 to the well-travelled mainland squad at South Surrey Arena. “It wasn’t an easy tournament,” Grizzlies head coach Jesse Harris said afterward. “We came in being ranked fifth in the province. We were seen as the underdogs with Prince George.” The Juan de Fuca boys opened with a splash on March 15, stunning the host Semiahmoo Eagles in a 6-2 win, a contest that Harris characterized as his team’s “best game of the season.” The Grizzlies followed up the next day with a 4-2 win over
Prince George and a hard-fought Barlow, Cole Belton, Carter 3-3 tie with Kelowna, before fac- Cochrane, Jayden Cull, Carson ing the eventual champs for the Echlin, Jackson Estey, Owen first time, on St. Patrick’s Day. Evers, Lukas Fikowski, Ty GibThey hung with Burnaby for a son, Chase Klassen, Jayden while, but had a tough time solv- Kurvers, Evan Law, Payton ing their opponent’s high-pow- Mount, John Ross and Kristjan Shoemaker. Assistant coaches ered offence and lost 10-5. With the other spot in the are Jeff Thompson and Jason final up for grabs between three Kurvers and team manager is Doug Estey. teams entering It was a the final day of “We came in being pretty impresplay, the Grizsive season for zlies needed a ranked fifth in the the Grizzlies, win to clinch province. We were seen who wound up at least a tie for the year with a second in the as the underdogs with record of 40-4-4 round robin. Prince George.” overall. They Shorthanded – Pee wee Grizzlies went undefor much of the coach Jesse Harris feated in Island first half of the league play, game, they fell behind 2-0 then 3-1 late in the won a Christmas tournament in second period to North Shore, Chilliwack and placed third in which was already out of the another in Richmond. They lost running with just one win in four just one playoff game and beat games. The Grizzlies regrouped Nanaimo to qualify for the proin the final five minutes of the vincials. “Coming out of the (Island) period to tie it up 3-3, then scored twice more in the open- tiering round at the start, it was ing 4:08 of the third to take con- pretty evident that we were going to be big contenders this trol. “We took the hard way against year,” said Harris, in his first year North Shore and had to claw our coaching the team. Made up of mainly secondway to a victory,” Harris said. “That led to the boys being quite year pee wee players, the team fatigued in the final game. But had three objectives for the seaoverall it was a good tourna- son, he said: “To win the league, to win the Island and to win proment.” Team members include vincials. They almost solidified goaltenders Ryan Dusseault their goals.” editor@goldstreamgazette.com and Dylan Garand, plus Chase
Juvenile squad tests provincial champs They may have finished at the bottom of the pack, but Juan de Fuca saved its best for last at the provincial juvenile hockey championships in Chilliwack last week. The JdF boys, who went 1-4
overall, gave the eventual champion Chilliwack team a run for its money, losing a close 3-1 decision Sunday afternoon that gave the host team a spot in that evening’s final. Juan de Fuca’s lone win at
the tournament was a 4-3 decision Saturday morning over Port Coquitlam, which narrowly missed making the championship game and finished third overall at 3-2. editor@goldstreamgazette.com
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Warhorse returning to Shamrocks’ fold Five-time Mann Cup winner latest highprofile signing for lacrosse club
in a statement. “In addition to tremendous skill, he brings intelligence, experience and outstanding leadership qualities to our group.” As of this week, seven-time NLL AllPro selection Dawson was second on the Knighthawks’ scoring list with 12 It’s been 10 years since “Danger- goals and 35 assists in 10 games. He tallied 284 points in 68 reguous” Dan Dawson helped lead the lar and post-season Victoria Shamrocks to games with the Shama Mann Cup lacrosse rocks, earning league title as a fresh-faced playoff most valuable 23-year-old power forplayer honours in 2005 ward, and eight since and 2006. He voiced he wore the green and excitement at coming white. back to the Island to Having won four rejoin the team. more Mann Cup rings “Victoria has the with the Brampton best fans in Canada Excelsiors in the and I am honoured to meantime, and Chambe able to put on the pions Cups the past Shamrocks jersey once two seasons with again in 2015,” he said. Rochester in the proDawson’s addition fessional National is expected to boost Lacrosse League, the Dan Dawson an already powerful 33-year-old is on his lineup for the two-time defending way back to Colwood. The defending Western Lacrosse WLA champions. Earlier this month Association champion Shamrocks the club re-signed co-scoring leaders announced they’ve come to terms Rhys Duch and Corey Small for the with the six-foot-five, 217-pounder to season. The Shamrocks open the season play here for the 2015 season. “He’s a proven winner who one May 22 at The Q Centre against day will be remembered among the Nanaimo. More team information is all-time greats in our sport,” club available at victoriashamrocks.com. editor@goldstreamgazette.com general manager Chris Welch said
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Juan de Fuca Grizzlies atom teams made the most of their second week of spring break by capturing the top three spots at the Oceanside Minor Hockey Association tournament. The JDF Grizzlies C2 team, coached by Ken Duncan, Boyd Moehling and Trevor Scoville earned the highest point total of all teams and went undefeated in five games. The gold medal match saw the A pool winning Grizzlies C2 team face off against their affiliated Grizzlies C1 team, which topped the B pool with three wins and a tie. The stands at the Howie Meeker Arena in Parksville were packed with very loud supporters for each team.
A hard-fought game saw the lead swing back and forth. In the end, the C2 team hung on for a 4-3 win, despite playing the lates stages of the game two men short due to penalties. In the bronze medal game, the JDF Grizzlies C4 team defeated the Oceanside Ice Hawks to round out Juan de Fuca’s sweep of the medals. The fourth Grizzlies team playing, the C3 squad, finished fourth in the A pool with a 1-2-1 record. The 12-team tournament also saw clubs entered from Victoria, Saanich, Oceanside, Nanaimo and as far away as Port Hardy. – Submitted by Michelle Scoville
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Reflecting on a championship Chargers volleyball season you and fellow graduating Charger Jeremy Finn leave for the upcoming players like (ex-Belmont Bulldogs) Doug (Waterman), Mark (Severinsen), Taran (Silas) and others? AS: The legacy that we have created is something quite special. To know that we have won Camosun College’s first National Championship with an amazing group of guys and in the way we won is just incredible. I have never played on a team which was closer than this year’s Chargers team. Whether you were playing or sitting on the bench, every player contributed equally to our success. I am hoping that future players can recreate this amazing feeling. GNG: What are your plans in the immediate future? AS: Plans … honestly, I don’t have any. Now that we are back in Victoria after being stranded by an Atlantic storm, I have to catch up on school and relax. I am sure that in the coming months, this experience will reach new levels of importance to me, but for now I will just take things day by day.
After a blizzard in Charlottetown kept the Canadian collegiate men’s volleyball champion Camosun Chargers stuck in P.E.I. for a couple extra days earlier this month, team members were happy to get back home to Greater Victoria. The Gazette caught up with fourth-year Charger middle and former Belmont Bulldog Alex Sadowski for a quick Q&A on winning it all, winding up his athletic career at Camosun and what the future might hold. GNG: Now that you’ve had a chance to savour the victory, how exciting is it still to know you went out on top for your Camosun career? AS: Even though things have settled down, it is still very surreal to think that we have won the National Championship. Finishing on this note will forever be ingrained in my memory and is something special that anyone can appreciate. I can enjoy it even more when I think of my teammates and the bond that we have created over this past year. GNG: You guys crafted some amazing comebacks through the week. Was there an overarching tone around the team that helped you guys get back on track when you were down in sets or matches? AS: I don’t think that we started the semi-final or final match in
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Camosun Chargers middle Alex Sadowski (7) celebrates a point during PacWest conference college volleyball play. The former Belmont Bulldog talks eloquently about winning nationals. the fashion that we would have liked. When we did lose sets we lost by quite a large margin. Looking back, we were never incred-
ibly concerned with the fact that we were losing, but rather what we needed to fix in order to start winning. This confidence gave us
a boost when we knew we needed to change and when the title was really in jeopardy. GNG: What kind of legacy do
• For a look back at the team’s run to the 2015 Canadian Colleges Athletic Association championship title, visit goldstreamgazette. com and type the word ‘”Chargers” into the search bar. editor@goldstreamgazette.com
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GOLDSTREAM GOLDSTREAM NEWS NEWS GAZETTE GAZETTE -- Wednesday, Wednesday, March March 25, 25, 2015 2015
Providing comfort for those in the sunset of life Kevin Laird Victoria News
The two women quietly enter the hospital room. They pause. The man, holding a yellow begonia, standing next to the dying woman nods his head in acknowledgement. “Would you like us to sing to your mother?” they softly ask. He replies in a soft whisper that he was about to leave. The woman invite him to stay. He moves to the head of the bed and the woman begin to sing All Through the Night. As the women sing, the woman lying in the bed passes away. “He was really grateful that he stayed because he was there when his mother died,” says singer Mariana Chapman, a member of the Victoria Hospice Bedside Singers. Three evenings a week the sound of voices can be heard coming from patient’s rooms at Victoria Hospice. The voices belong to the Victoria Hospice Beside Singers, a group that helps comfort the dying by singing in a cappella (voices unaccompanied by instruments) and always in teams of only two singers. The core repertoire includes songs of comfort and general blessing, as well as popular songs from popular culture. The group began in 2007 when a Hospice volunteer noticed that by humming and
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Victoria Hospice Bedside Singers Mariana Chapman, left, Suellen Guenther and Kathie Doerksen have volunteered with the palliative care organization for more than seven years. singing around patients, they seemed to be comforted. Today, the group consists of 13 volunteers and more are needed. Chapman, Suellen Guenther and Kathie Doerksen have been with the group the longest. “What we do in bedside singing is be very respectful of the patient,” Guenther says. “We would not sing songs or hymns with religious language unless we get an indication from the patient or the family that’s their tradition. We just offer comforting words.” Hospice staff will usually refer a patient
grateful and uplifted. It’s just so supportive and calm,” Doerksen says. Adds Guenther: “It’s the times when it’s profound that keeps us coming back. Every now and then there is something really touching and you realize, ‘wow we made a difference for that person.’” editor@goldstreamgazette.com
and oftentimes family members. A singer will then meet with the patient to see if they are interested. Some people are interested right away, others take a little convincing, and often it’s a flat no, Doerksen says. “If they say no, we thank them for that too. ‘No’ is also a right answer,” says Chapman. The singers can sing one to a handful of songs, it depends on how long the patient wants them there. “Sometimes patients are too exhausted and it’s overwhelming for them to choose a song,” Doerksen says. “We just ask them if they want a lullaby-kind of song or an upbeat song and we’ll choose one to fit.” Training to become a Bedside Singer is about a six-month process with singers required to take Hospice volunteer training followed by music work. The group wants singers who can stay on key, generally sing in a warm lullaby tone, and be able to smoothly blend their voice with one other singer. It is not necessary to have any professional vocal training. The ability to read music is not a requirement. New singers are mentored by experienced Bedside Singers during the regular Victoria Hospice schedule. Members of Beside Singers are required to attend Wednesday evening practices. Doerksen, Guenther and Chapman says there is nothing like Hospice. “I never leave here without feeling so
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New public safety building should improve response times, as well as communication between departments Don Descoteau News Gazette staff
Sitting in a guest chair sipping a coffee, View Royal Fire Chief Paul Hurst comments on how his new office feels somewhat like a “fish bowl.” Accustomed to being mostly out of public view at the old fire hall on Four Mile Hill, he now has a clear view out onto Island Highway, where thousands of residents and commuters alike pass by daily. Hurst’s airy, bright front office reflects the design of the whole front of the new hall: huge glass doors and windows allow the public to see fire vehicles standing at the ready. “We’ve had so many residents come through already and take a look,” the chief says. “There’s a high sense of civic pride in this building.” The $7.49-million public safety building, so called for the fact it combines the functions of fire protection, building inspection, bylaw enforcement and emergency program management, has been operational nearly two weeks. In the first week at the new site firefighters responded to 25 or 30 calls, about average, Hurst says. The very first, he notes, was attending to a pair of West Shore RCMP officers who had ingested exhaust fumes during a Colwood rescue. The building is the culmination of years of planning, research, design and of course, a public referendum in the fall of 2012 that saw roughly 64 per cent of voters say yes to the town borrowing almost $5.5 million
Creating an oasis for times of crisis
With its own reserve of truck fuel, propane and a massive generator, the new View Royal public safety building on Island Highway has been built to “post-disaster” standards, meaning it’s designed to continue to function even if an earthquake or other disaster takes other emergency services out of commission. With a large classroom and adjacent boardroom on the premises, the building is designed to function as the town hall in the event the municipal building is rendered useless, says Fire Chief Paul Hurst. And with a commercial-size kitchen on site available to keep people fed, the building would definitely be a place of comfort in the event of an emergency.
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for the project. From the street alone, the building is eye-catching and modern-looking. But it is equal parts form and function, with a warm, dry place inside for virtually everything – not least of which the vehicles and other rescue equipment. Roughly centred in a bowl carved out of a piece of land that formerly housed three old homes, the building has or will eventually offer built-in training opportunities for things like high-angle rescues, aerial truck hose practice, rappelling and enclosed-space firefighting. Gone are the days of having to use a wing of Victoria General Hospital for aerial work, or finding places around View Royal that were quiet enough to practice certain aspects of the job. “The guys are really excited,” Hurst says of the new on-site options. “We no longer have to train firefighters on streets and in neighbourhoods … It’s going to take this department to the next level.” Other features built into the new hall will profoundly affect the ability for the fire department to respond in a timely fashion. Down an upstairs hallway from the gym are four dorm-style bunk rooms, where firefighters will sleep overnight and be available to spring into action immediately. Off the same hallway is an outside pathway leading to what will eventually be four side-by-side bachelor apartments. They’ll be offered up to four volunteer firefighters – they’ll pay rent and likely be assigned groundskeeping duties, Hurst says – who will be available overnight as well. “From a service delivery point of view, this is a game-changer,” the chief says of the potential to have eight firefighters on site overnight, who can roll a unit out of the hall in 60 to 80 seconds, rather than having to wait until a full crew arrives from their homes. “View Royal residents will definitely notice a difference.” Standing in the turnout gear room, set to 24 C to help dry equipment quickly and negatively pressurized to keep in particulate contaminants, Troy Mollin, a firefighter who serves as the town’s emergency program officer, can’t say enough about the new facility. “It’s a big upgrade; it’s actually surreal to be in the building right now,” he says. “There’s so many opportunities going forward to improve all our programs, including emergency management, our training and the administration of our department. That was the purpose of the design, to allow room for growth.” Asked what he likes about the new hall, fellow firefighter Gary Faykes, who is the town’s building inspector, jokes that it’s a kilometre closer to his home so he can get here quicker. “I think it’s a great building to respond from; everything has been set up perfectly,” he says. “From a building official side, I love it because the building is very
Photos by Don Descoteau/News Gazette staff
(Above) View Royal firefighter and emergency program officer, Troy Mollin, standing left, joins Fire Chief Paul Hurst and firefighter/building inspector Gary Faykes, kneeling, inside the new public safety building on Island Highway. The town’s fire protection, emergency programming, building inspection and bylaw enforcement officials have been together in one building since January 2014. (Below), the turnout gear storage room is climate controlled and negatively pressurized to keep contaminants out of the main hall.
code compliant. It was very well designed and it’s been great working in it, from the beginning groundbreaking right up to occupancy.” Hurst admits he felt a bit of an emotional twinge upon stepping out of the old building and assuming operations, with no interruption to service, in the new one. “My dad was a volunteer firefighter,” he says, “and I’ve been coming to that hall since I was five years old.” Now 44, Hurst joined the volunteer ranks as a fresh-faced teen in 1984 and was hired on full-time in ’87. Since then he’s seen many a volunteer firefighter come and go through the old hall. “The old adage ‘if these walls could talk’ comes to mind,” he says. Around 280 volunteers have served on fire duty since
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Langford’s bit of Bellagio should be back and bubbling by the end of May. The popular fountain in the roundabout at Goldstream Avenue and Bryn Maur Road has been shut down since it was heavily damaged by a semi-trailer at the end of November. Photo by James Xiang/Courtesy City of Langford Work has started The Goldstream Avenue roundabout fountain on replacing the bro- glows at night in this time-lapsed shot. ken pipes and repairing the Fibreglas liner, said George of April, he added. The new fountain will be pretty Henshall, manager of public works much the same as the old one for the City of Langford. “The nice weather in Febru- because of the scope of Insurance ary helped us move ahead on the Corporation of British Columbia covrepairs,” Henshall said. “The aim is erage, which will pay for the work. Henshall estimates the cost of to have it completed for the May long replacement parts and labour at weekend.” Replacement parts have been $75,000 to $100,000. news@goldstreamgazette.com ordered and are expected by the end
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Notice of Public Hearing NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Council of the City of Colwood will hold a meeting to afford the public an opportunity to be heard or to present written submissions respecting matters in the following proposed bylaw at a PUBLIC HEARING to be held at Colwood City Hall, 3300 Wishart Road, Colwood, B.C. on Monday, March 30, 2015 at 6:00 p.m. 1. “Colwood Official Community Plan Bylaw No. 999, 2008, Amendment No. 9 (Ocean Grove Guidelines), Bylaw No. 1563, 2015”. The general purpose of proposed Bylaw No. 1563 is to amend Section 25.0 of the Official Community Plan by replacing the “Lagoon Estates/ Aquattro Guidelines” with the “Ocean Grove Guidelines” for the properties shown outlined on the map below, more particularly described as Lot 1, Section 35, Esquimalt District, Plan EPP37756; Lot 1, Section 35, Esquimalt District, Plan EPP37757; and Lots 3, 4, 5 and 6, Section 35, Esquimalt District, Plan VIP86234. 2. “Colwood Land Use Bylaw No. 151, 1989, Amendment No. 143 (Comprehensive Development (CD6) Zone – Ocean Grove), Bylaw No. 1564, 2015”. The general purpose of proposed Bylaw No. 1564 is to amend the Land Use Bylaw by replacing “Section 10.11 Comprehensive Development 6 (CD6) Zone” in its entirety and replacing it with “Section 10.11 Comprehensive Development (CD6) Zone – Ocean Grove” for the properties shown outlined on the map below, more particularly described as Lot 1, Section 35, Esquimalt District, Plan EPP37756; Lot 1, Section 35, Esquimalt District, Plan EPP37757; and Lots 3, 4, 5 and 6, Section 35, Esquimalt District, Plan VIP86234. A copy of the proposed bylaw and other related material may be inspected at City Hall, 3300 Wishart Road, Colwood, B.C. between the hours of 8:30 a.m. and 4:30 p.m. Monday through Friday, except statutory holidays, from Monday, March 23, 2015 up to and including Monday, March 30, 2015. For further information please contact the Planning Department at 478-5999 or planning@colwood.ca Iain Bourhill, MCIP, RPP Director of Planning
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The City of Langford has received an application to amend Zoning Bylaw No. 300 by means of proposed Bylaw No. 1562. All persons who believe that their interest in property is affected by the proposed Bylaw will be afforded an opportunity to be heard or to present written submissions respecting matters contained in the Bylaw at a Public Hearing to be held in the CITY OF LANGFORD COUNCIL CHAMBERS, Third Floor, 877 Goldstream Avenue, Langford, BC, on Tuesday, 7 April 2015, at 7:00 pm. Please be advised that no representations may be received by Council after the close of the Public Hearing and any submissions made to Council, whether orally or in writing, will form part of a public record. Proposal: The purpose of Bylaw No. 1562 is to amend the City of Langford Zoning Bylaw No. 300 by amending the zoning designation of the land that is the subject of Bylaw No. 1562 from the current CD8 (Comprehensive Development 8 – Valley View) Area 1 – Single Family Dwellings Zone and adding to the CD8 (Comprehensive Development 8 – Valley View) Area 2 – Townhouse Residential Zone to allow a development of approximately 20 townhouses on the subject properties. Applicant: Richard Irwin, Irwin Consulting Location: The land that is the subject of Bylaw No. 1562 is 919, 923, 927, 931, 935, 939 and 943 Wild Ridge Way as shown shaded on the plan. COPIES of the complete proposed Bylaw and other material that the Council may consider in relation to the Bylaw may be viewed from 8:30 am to 4:30 pm, Monday to Friday (holidays excluded), from Monday, 23 March 2015 to Tuesday, 7 April 2015, inclusive, at Langford City Hall, 2nd Floor, 877 Goldstream Avenue, Langford, BC, V9B 2X8. Please contact Grant Liebscher in the Planning Department at 250-4787882 with any questions on this Bylaw. Jim Bowden Administrator